Fairy-tales and father Freud. Is psychoanalysis the right tool to understand folk imaginary?
Fairy-tales and father Freud. Is psychoanalysis the right tool to understand folk imaginary?

Summary/Abstract: The paper reviews the bibliography in the field of psychoanalytical analyses of fairy talessince the instrumental works of Sigmund Freud to today’s approaches. Folk and fairy tales aswell as mythological narratives were analyzed by the proponents of the psychoanalytic studyof fairy tales through two main approaches: the psychoanalyst could either analyze the fairytale creator’s psychology, or examine the psychological motivations underneath the fairytale’s characters narrative behavior. From the post-Freudians and post-Jungians to feministrevisionists, the recent fairy tale scholarship is apparently losing its connection with the actualcontent of these texts created according to a certain worldview and folk imaginary.

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